dark glasses
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- noun
- /dɑrk ˈɡlæsɪz/
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gafas de sol
- On sunny days, I always wear dark glasses to protect my eyes from the bright light.
- wear dark glasses
But look, Liam, he came out of his flat for one week straight with dark glasses on.
- But look, Liam, he came out of his flat for one week straight with dark glasses on.
- He come out one morning in dark glasses and not showing his eyes.
- Glasses, you know, like these kind of like dark glasses, a green military cap and a backpack.
- But what Noam Sobel's lab did is they had people completely eliminate their visual experience by having them wear dark glasses or goggles.
Examples
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Gentleman with the dark glasses... arrived on the same ferry as me?
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I put on dark glasses so people couldn't see my eyes.
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Were they wearing dark glasses?
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Instead, he removed his dark glasses as if he wanted her to look right into his eyes.
Fiction book (1997) -
So after work I put on some, I remember putting on these dark glasses, huge dark glasses.
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When you take off the dark glasses, you know what you'll see?
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Deep in the shadows, a fifth man, wearing dark glasses, is barely visible.
Fiction book (1996) -
The man puts on dark glasses, and the decoy team heads rapidly down the hall.
Fiction book (1996) -
Alice barely looks up as the woman, wearing dark glasses and a scarf, moves into the waiting area.
Fiction book (1993) -
Orhon could not see the man's eyes because he wore dark glasses that reflected the sky.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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Glasses with dark lenses that protect your eyes from bright sunlight
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Dark glasses worn to protect your eyes from bright sunlight
Lenses in glasses that automatically darken in sunlight and become clear in low light
Glasses whose lenses become dark in sunlight and clear indoors
How Dark
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'spectacles with darkened or polarized lenses' is directly and transparently derived from 'dark' modifying 'glasses' — i.e. glasses that are dark. This adjective+noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern and should be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Dark glasses comes from the simple picture of glasses with dark lenses that block the sun's bright light. So, dark glasses means 'glasses' worn to 'protect the eyes' from strong sunlight and make it easier to see.